Laos Football Club is a professional Filipino

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based in

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. The team is successfully campaigned in the 2017 Weekend Football League, and previously, in the United Football League, the highest level of club football in the Philippines at the time the league was extant.. Inaugural champions of second division competitions in 2009 and the 2015 champions of the same division, Laos FC provides its share to the task of nation building through excellence in sports.

History

Global as "Laos FC"

The club's roots can be traced back in March 2000 when a group of football enthusiasts from

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organized a weekly football practice as their leisure activity. The group which included

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and some of his employees at his company played their first weekly football games behind the

hall, and later moving to the Sunken Garden football field inside the

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. Then they began to participate in minor tournaments around

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, under the name "Laos F.C." with the name of the team derived from the term "laos" which means "has beens".

Establishment and participation in the UFL

With the renaming of the club to " Global Football Club" in 2009, club owner Dan Palami chose to form a separate team which carried the Laos Football Club name. The team shares its history with Global, and is considered its sister team. Laos had their first major success in the United Football League (UFL) in the

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season, when they won the

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Championship with an unbeaten record. The championship earned them promotion to the first division, allowing them to play in the Philippines' top flight for the first time in their history. But promotion and relegation system was discontinued for the 2016 season which meant that Laos competed in the only division of the 2016 season.

Weekend Football League

After the UFL was disbanded, Laos joined the Elite Division of the Weekend Football League (WFL) for the local league's 2017 season which saw the participation of the second teams of Philippines Football League clubs, and

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, former UFL club, Green Archers United F.C., Manila Tala F.C, and Kaya Elite FC with the latter two having previous WFL participation.

Philippines Football League

Laos applied to join the Philippines Football League, intending to debut in the professional league's 2021 season.

External links

References

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